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david axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders faux rasmussen and the exit of afghanistan. and chewing over the week with jeff zell mi and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." vice president biden questioned mitt romneys bu...

axelrod and republican national committee chairman reince priebus. also spending cuts, tax cuts, and what do women want in 2012 with senators barbara boxer and kay bailey hutchison. plus, an exclusive interview with nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen on the exit of afghanistan. and chewing over the week with jeff zeleny of "the new york times" and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while vice president biden ...

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Clear that i hope our campaigns can respectively be about the futures ap issues about america. >> jon: the g.o.p. faith shooting down a super pacs plan to go negative on the presidents past dealings with reverend wright. how did the media react to that? newly released evidence in the trevon martin shooting case gives credibility to george zimmermans storiment are the media covering that? with mles and billions to be made, facebook goes public. and did the media create the frenzy. >> and how did ...

Associate president obama with what reverend wright has said in the past? >> well, i think its a little more fair to associate president obama with reverend wright because he was his pastor. that is a fact. he has disowned him, obviously, during the 2008 campaign. remember, mitt romney didnt really have anything to do with this proposed pitch from what we know. but this is the new era of super pacs where you have a multimillionaire basically could contemplate an ad campaign that has been discred...

Im not suggesting that msnbc go wall to wall with this story. but its important to take note that this is the level of rhetoric were getting in some places in this country. >> larry, add this rhetoric that jonathans talking about to the return of the birthers in arizona, the reverend wright attack ad. what is going on with the republican party? what can you tell us about this green county gop issue? >> well, i want to stress to you and to jon that green county, lets put it this way, would have t...

Use reverend wright issue against president obama. >> i roll my eyes when i hear about whats happening in arizona. its absurd. hell be on the ballot. i dont know what good some republicans in arizona think they may be doing, but it takes away from the romney campaign because theyre not discussing the important issue. but when we talk about the presentation of a potential ad, i think everyone says, were not going to talk about the reverend wright, except now theyre all talking about it baez becau...

Romney and the things that people dont understand. i think both the reverend wright issue and the mormon issue should be off the table. what should be on the table is a discussion of religious liberty. once you attack religious liberty, you start attacking the essence of what makes america exceptional. and thats a policy issue to be discussed. >> and dont you worry that this damages the republican brand? when we have to have discussions like this and talk about issues that are being brought up b...

Because this is another aspect of the gop base that he is being pressured by democrats to come out and repudiate. hes kept his distance so far from this. as we saw with the reverend wright prospective ad that was going to be coming out this week, that was something that he eventually felt he needed to put his foot down. this is something hes still keeping at arms length. but it does not put the gop in a good light when looking at things nationally. >> this is interesting, perry, that newt gingri...

Think this might have some lasting effect and might actually peculiarly help mitt romney. this guy, joe rickettes -- >> owner of the chicago cubs. >> founder of ameritrade. hes now pulled back. hes obviously not going to do this crazy -- >> which is the jeremiah wright -- >> right. the jeremiah wright ad that he was considering. and i think the message that it sends -- hes about to lose or potentially lose $100 million tax deal with the city of chicago to refurbish wrigley field as a result of t...